Yes, Kerr called PC Lovell ‘f***ing stupid and white’, but what wasn’t included in that clip was PC Lovell patronisingly calling Kerr ‘missy’, as well as saying ‘I haven’t had a choice to listen to you, you’re very loud’.
Over the course of two weeks in January 2024, Sam Kerr ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and was charged with racially aggravated harassment against a police officer, and she has spent the last 12 months picking up the pieces as off-field events threatened to derail everything she had worked for on it.
It’s worth mentioning that this may hang over her for some time, though, as there’s no denying that Kerr – who one Australian journalist described at the start of the trial as the ‘best thing to happen to Australian sport since Shane Warne’.
Over the course of two weeks in January 2024, Sam Kerr ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and was charged with racially aggravated harassment against a police officer.
From Kerr’s point of view, this was her way of expressing why three white, male police officers couldn’t understand her – a woman who identifies as white Anglo-Indian – point of view.
